The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation headquarters today notified Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn, the Lubavitcher Rabbi, that the UNRRA has provided and will continue to provide Kosher food in all the areas where it operates, wherever such food is requested and available.
The statement from UNRRA come in response to an appeal from Rabbi Schneersohn that displaced Jews he provided with Kosher food during the Passover holiday as well as after Passover. A similar appeal was sent by Rabbi Schneersohn to the State Department and to the Joint Distribution Committee. The reply from the State Department was “highly sympathetic,” he said, and the J.D.C. informed the Rabbi that it supplied close to 3,000,000 pounds of matzoth to Jews in European countries and elsewhere.
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